Hello! Welcome to day three!
Unfortunately I am not any more awake than yesterday but ill make the effort.
A quick review of yesterday:
We arrived at Givat Olga and the theme of the day was multiculturalism. First, we all realised hat we have a love of music so we played a game with beats and rhythms, the english girls beat the israelis. However, they proved themselves in the next game when we were split into groups again and we discovered that they are incredibly artistic and talented!
Then, an Ethiopian Immigrant woman called Tenat came taught us her art of sculpting with ethiopian clay. It was incredible!!! She showed us how she made faces, statues, animals and said that her ideas are inspired from the dreams she has at night. We made all our own sculptures, using our own imagination and created everything including frogs, mobiles, hot dog buns, faces, fruit bowls, elephants and birds.
Then, we watched a short clip that showed how the immigrants of the seventies from all over the world came to Israel and how they treated and were treated by the immigrants already there.
After a short break in which we all were taught wedding dances by Liora and Rachel Leah and one of the Israeli girls, Linor, taught us Israeli wedding dances to Ani Ma'amin. It just shows that languages are not a barrier if you dont want them to be...
Then we all walked the three minute walk to the most amazing house EVER! The woman had mangoes, lemons, and figs growing and had coffee grinders and cats and dogs and a huge concrete well that was used as an oven for the Pittas we were to be making.
In short (because I must sleep), we learnt how to make Couscous:
Semolina, Oil, Salt, steam it for a bit, then mix and steam again and then push it through a sieve and cook it! Its amazing, you will never buy Couscous again. Then we made Pitta: Burnt a massive fire then waited for the ashes to go down, then the woman rolled the dough into balls and flattened it against the bare sides of the metal basins.
Fast forward an hour or so and we had the most delicious meal of couscous, pitta and pickled vegetables and cooked vegetables and the spiciest Harif ever!
The lady was from Tripoli, Libya and told us about how she keeps to all the old traditions.
I must finish up now but the last thing we had was the coolest Theatre workshop about which I will explain tomorrow.
We ended off and all hugged eachother, we really bonded today. I love them all!
Till tomorrow!
Brocha
